A/N:Hello all!Yes,I am writing this next ch. a little more eariler then my last three,the reason being is I want to get around to focusing some on one of my TT fanfics.Anyways,I know a lot of you have noticed I haven't really been doing the 'Repiles' section lately.So I'll be fair and get on with them...I might not next ch,but hey,you never know.lolz!

Repiles:

Horseluver101:Well,it's sort of hard to understand if you haven't read The Last Phoenix and Dragon Steel but Jake and Rose had Casandra four years ago in the fanfic.I know,I should have said it b/4.I'll most likely not put anything to uncomprehendsible that others who haven't read my past ADJL fanfics don't.Lol,sry about the minor confusion.

YFWE:Yes,pie indeed is a very essential part of a well balanced diet...that is,if I wanted to gain like an extra thirty pounds quickly.Lolz.

EvilAngelOfDarkness:Wow,SO much anticapation!Becareful you don't strain yourself now with so much.Lolz!Hope you write more soon,I'd love to see some more stuff like Her Fate out.Byez.

Continueing...

Skyler sat with a blased look plastered on his face,as he tried his best to tune out the ceaseless chattering of his Mother and Sister-in-law Rose,as he watched them blankly carrying on about unimportant adult conversation.That's when his burnt umber eyes travelled from them,to his slightly younger niece who could attract attention from a mile,as his musing was soon confirmed when his Mother started in on how much little Cassie had grown since the last time she had laid eyes on her.And Rose,instantly glad to be on one of her faviote subjects of talk,agreed with exterted energy.As soon as they were back on a new topic,Skyler pushed himself off the red plush chair he was sitting on in a slumped postion and made his way causally over to Cassie,who was engrossed at looking at a plant,

"Hey,Cas,"Skyler greeted her with a false,toothy grin,"What'cha looking at there?"he turned without her reply to stare at the tall,young dark green potted plant with large,flimsy leafsjust to appear as if his interest was chafed,"Wow,they sure must of tooken a long time to grow this thing."

She didn't awnser right away,as she stared in deep rumination,"It shouldn't be here,it should be outside were it can spread it's roots and grow freely,"her words seem to take on some other form of meaning,as if he weren't there at all,but she suddenly smiled mischievously,"Let's go listen to that story my Great-Grandpa's telling."

"What story?"Sklyer inquired her curiously,he hadn't intended on staying very long anyways but then a thought crossed his mind,"Were you eavsdropping on Jake and Grandpa after our parents said not to."

Casandra turned her round cyanean eyes from her fixed gaze on the plant to his questioning ones,"I just have one thing to ask,"she began in a low,almost whispery voice and then ended zestfully,"What is eavsdropping?Oh and I was listening to what they were saying too."

Skyler took a quick survey behind them to make sure everyone was preoccupied with something else,that including his Father scanning over Haley'sjob appilcation with look of approval and his Mother and Sister-in-law still caught up in thier random discussions about adult-related topics,before he grabbed a hold of his Niece's wrist and pratically dragged her down the hall to the room that was marked 2210,

"Alright,"he whispered to her softly,brushing some of his shaggy dark brown hair aside so he could lightly press his ear to the door's cool wooden surface,"The key thing is to be real quiet and listen carefully."

"Eavsdropping is bad,isn't it?"Casandra inquired suspiciously,her tiny hands on her hips and her thin,curved brows arched completely upright.

With an exasperated groan,Skyler reached out for her and quietly pulled her closer to the door beside him,his burnt umber eyes strangely serious and resolute on hearing whatever was being said in the next room.So gesturing to just trust him and do what he told her,the two of them gingerly leaned in again and when words hit thier ears,they listened.

Back to the battle...

The Dark Dragon snickered avidly under his heavy breath,this was what he had been waiting for,this is what he had been training up for.One of the toughest young Dragons,not to mention one of the most smooth-talking ones,around was right there for him to take out and all he had to do was decide how and where.The place he had in mind dwelled perfectly at the front of his thoughts,as he pulled out a neatly-cut blue gem that was strung around a dark verdant ribbon from under one of his scales and held it between the long,narrow tips of his grisly-looking black claws,

"This stone I hold before us is called Anti-Dragonite,"He explained to Laoshi in his deep and booming voice,eyeing the quietly vexed and impaitent-looking Chinese Dragon from the side of the gem as he spoke,"I assume you have heard of it,as well as it's rare counterpart.The real version,Dragonite.The very stone that mankind destroyed so long ago,without even knowing what it could do.Well...this will take us to a place where I am sure you've heard only as a myth,a place where anyone could access magical energys..."his voice grow dark,"If they know how."

Laoshi narrowed his eyes with increasingly thin clemency,things weren't working especially well on his side at the moment but if he went full out without knowing what he was up againist,it could mean disaster for a lot of innocent people and Magical creatures if he didn't use consideration for everything he did from then on.So as soon as the Dark Dragon brought the blue gemstone he had heard commonly referred to as the Dragon Reversal Stone or Anti-Dragonite,he nodded that he uuerstoowhat he was being told and as soon as he silently accepted his enemy's terms,the Dark Dragon held the Anti-stone higher into the air and it suddenly started to illuminate a flood of gracefully yet rapidly flowing azure light.Which trapped them inside a sort of sphere,teleporting them off to another world.

"Laoshi!"A familiar female voice cried out for him desperately,as well as a few others followed as Laoshi found himselfstaring face-to-face with a large portal where he could see his Mother Jiang,Eleven-year-old sister Yaisu and Eight-year-old sister Bolieei being unshackled and brought forth in a pitiful struggling match to a clear vat of what appeared to be a sort of foul-smelling greenish,yellowish brew.On further inspection,he reazlied with unmentionable horror that it was a large quanity of not easily obtained potion that allowed the absolute extermination of regular beings.

"No,"He breathed gaspingly and then turned on the Dark Dragon with flashing red eyes,"NO!You're going too far with this,this wasn't our deal."

"Change of plans,"The Dark Dragon merely laughed insensitively,with no regard whatsoever to how much Laoshi could handle,"If you cannot defeat me before sunriseon the Earth,"his ebony facial features crept into a cruel and mean grin,"I will simply go ahead on my orginal plan of sacrificing the entire of Earth and be done with it.But of course,giving in and admitting utter defeat would be a lot less stressful and time-consuming for my part.As for yours,well,there never were any gurantees you know."

Complete rage and blind fury nearly over took Laoshi at that moment,how couldanyone be so evil and heartless as to do such a thing as what he saw before him?How could anyone be so...so...His train of thought cut off there,it was time to do action,not to linger in endless muse.So launching himself forward,his tough-scaled exterior coiling and uncoiling as he went,he braced himself and blew out a stream of fire.

The Dark Dragon paused momentarily,before he centered his line of vision into the eye of the surging infernal and without even barely trying,spewed a firey attack of his own to collide with Laoshi's direct attack.But what was the most surprising,was watching out his puny his trail of flame looked compared the masses that Dark Dragon seemed to produce so easily and didn't even after to release if far out either.However,the blaring alarms going off inside of Laoshi and the blazing depths of his soul would not allow him to be intimdated now.Not with so much on the line.That's when an idea sparked and as the defensive wall of fire on the opposing side was starting to lessen,Laoshi used his tall,slendor body to snake around his fading flames and just as it all dissolved into nothing,two arms jerked out in unison and bashed againist each other.And as soon they saw each other clearly enough,they both started to swipe aggressively at one another,

"It would seem I have misestimated you a bit at first to be nothing more then some Dragon hero wannabe,"The Dark Dragon admitted truthfully,as the two's claws finally hooked into each and they were locked eye-to-eye,"But even so..."he continued with the right amount of eveness to his tone,"You are no match for me,no one has ever been a match for me."

Laoshi only glared at him coolly,as the slick sound of thier sharp claw skitted and they both fell back.Deep inside of him he could feel something else coming to pass,something he hadn't quite understood at the time when his old Dragon Mentor had explained it to him.That one single battle could change one's complete outlook on life but refusing to believe in that sort of rubbish,he quickly tried to estimate what time the sun would rise and knowing he didn't have much time,readied himself once again.But not before his eyes came to rest on a girl a bit younger then himself,laying unconscious off to his left and with what appeared to be a wand grasped in her hand.

Wow,who could this mysterious new girl be?Will Laoshi think his old mentor saying is so 'rubbish-related' when it happens to him?And what's with the whole question on eavsdropping!Find out in the next exciting chappie!

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